Good things come to those who wait, and Lord knows that Juan Manuel Marquez was waiting for the world.

Of course, he kept Manny Pacquiao in a draw in 2004, but then lost points two years later in Indonesia with the featherweight champion WBA Chris John.

However, his unanimous and distinguished 12-round points are won by Marco Antonio Barrera before 8127 fans at the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay hotel on March 17, 2007. They disappointed.

The victory crowned Marquez not only the master of two scales (WBA/IBF pen, and now the Super-Feather WBC), but he won the unique and unusual double, younger brother Rafael, winning the Crown Super-Bantam in WBC two weeks earlier.

Interestingly, these Mexican siblings (married to the sisters) achieved the same feat in two weeks in 2003 (though in the reverse order), when Juan Manuel won the IBF feather bar, and then Rafael Korona Bantam of the same organization, perhaps making the sedate rivals with Leon and Michael Spinsk are known.

Although Marquez was before, what he lacked was recognition. But although this triumph certainly brought him the right to seriously questioned the supremacy in the division, Juan Manuel will continue to require a few more wins of this size, if he is to join the aristocracy of Barrera and Erika Morales.

The future offers Marquez an immediate chance to return from Barrera or the competition with the WBO master Joan Guzman.

The most convincing match would be against Pacquiao, but its promotional status makes the fight less accessible, if not impossible.

However, at the age of 33 and he won 47. Victory in 51 fights, Marquez must be at the peak or outside.

So I am afraid that the possibility that he has ever joined the ranks of other Mexican great, is a bit distant, like Steve Collins, despite two wins over each of Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn, they have never received the same recognition as the men he conquered. In the worst case, Marquez will be remembered as a man who fell over and perhaps a retired Barrera.

Marquez (9. 3lbs) escaped with his decision, winning the last three rounds for all judges.

This only made sure that the result is already on the cards. Because after nine rounds, Marquez led all three judges, he helped a point deducted from Barrera in dying seconds of an amazing seventh, when after he was shocked, Marco Antonio returned to drop his pretender (although he was argued to slip), and then he hit him absurd when he was down and defense.

However, although it seemed close to the fight, there was never time when no judges had Barrera in the front.

It was an stimulating, though constantly stimulating competition, as in the case of the first and third battle Barrera with Morales or a scorching meeting of Marquez of Pacquiao. But in brief, the explosive, the dams forward and the return in almost every round, which moved enough for the crowd to be a collection and supported wildly.

Richard Schaefer and Bernard Hopkins for the Golden Boy promoters claimed that he was a powerful claimant for Fight of the Year and so it could be. But a lot of emotions appeared in the last 10 seconds of each round, when they suddenly allowed to fly with everything to keep the undecided judges.

Usually, Marquez, slightly faster, improved from these exchanges, and the results of the judges achieved in seven rounds, six of which went to Marquez, certainly the garbage of Barrera’s claim (see fight) that it was a terrible decision.

Tally Douga Tucker suggested that Marquez had a much easier time than in the case, and even 116-111 results for Patricia Morse Jarman and Paul Smith seemed generous for the modern master, whom I won 116-113.

But Barrera (9. 4 pounds) could never exert control behind her stab, as he had against the previous pretenders, although apparently this was not his only intention on this occasion.

Ricky Hatton, a friend of Barrera I, who led the master to the ring, told me that Marco Antonio decided to battle, as if it was his desire to compensate for the lack of action that he provided fans in his previous victory, over Rocky Juarez.

But Barrera tactics represented a mixture of what he is capable of: bright boxing and uneven confrontation. Perhaps this led to the confusion that Marquez was able to apply his speedy hands and flawless technique.

Barrera was always threatening with the left, whether as a hook or a great contract with the body or head. He dropped Marquez, twice at the end of the second, although until the fifth he had no more blows and “paid the price. Marquez scored a goal with the fabulous upper upper upper upper right result on the fifth, though next to the left eye looked sore.

Until then, each of them canceled the second periods, when the defensive work won the attack as one and then the other, until the end of the fireworks at the end of the round.

But the seventh turned out to be a turning point, because Barrera was seriously shaken by the law to the jaw, but she usually tried to fight, even though he sent more punishment. Then, in the fire of this pressure, Barrera defeated his opponent to hit, when he both threw the laws and putting off Juan Manuel.

He was on all fours, when, at least a second or two after he was placed, Marquez received a wave in his ear, which was as intentional as Tiger Woods, putting the golf ball on a T -shirt and swaying.

I remember how the British pretender for a welterweight title, Colin Jones, was disqualified for something similar in the 1980s, but nowadays receiving orders to march for the first crime, even if it was as glaring as Barrera.

Absurdowa was Barrera’s suggestion that Judge Jay Nady was guilty, that he did not jump quickly after the fall of Marquez. Barrera tried to justify a budget-friendly shot, saying something to which he was not there to have fun.

Barrera may have a good picture from the ring, but it can be nasty in it.

Although Nady broke, without noticing the knocking down, in defense of the official I would say that most of us did not see the replay of Migle at the end of the round on immense screens.

In fact, what happened cost Barrera three points, but fortunately it did not affect the result.

And although the Marquez floor suggested that Barrera was above the rocky moments he had experienced earlier in the round, the master never seemed so commanding again, even if he caused the pretender’s nose bleeding and the left eye to start closing in the ninth place when both of them allowed the blows to fly.

Marquez’s face was now a mess – a stout lip and swollen eyes – but his obvious hunger and drive turned out to be decisive. He broke Barrera’s powerful right in 10th place, threw the left eye of the master and chased victory in the 11th, producing more solid work.

And in the last Marquez he ignored a sedate cut in the right eye to punish Barrera, 63-5 1ND (42), as if he still had everything to fight. Two shocking hooks to the head forced the tired master to hold to the last 10 seconds when they went to it wild.

Everyone was outstanding, cheering and clapping. Hopkins said: “These guys have worn out for entertainment. Even the winner’s career when it comes to longevity in boxing is shortened [in fights such as these]. “

In the case of a risk that spoke like a man addicted to a thrill, despite the risk, the 42-year-old added: “Now you know why I’m coming back because you can’t watch such a fight and not get itching.”

Some may question the Joe Calzaghe place among the greatest fighters in history, but NaSayers should take a closer look at; It is challenging to deny that he deserves his place in Hall of Fame.

Undoubtedly, taking into account his overall work, he is the most talented super-medium weight of all time. Forget that Thomas Hearns, Ray Leonard and Roy Jones, whose stay in the division was fleeting in comparison, Joe belongs at the top of the pile.

And although the division is in its infancy, because its history is expanding and growing over time, future masters will have their names compared to Joe in a way in which today’s heirs are constantly providing against yesterday’s kings. And the Welshman deserves this indelible pedestal.

He proved his adversities in and beyond, bouncing from knocking against Byron Mitchelle, Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones, while tuning his Southpaw style to deal with brittle hands. Criticism of his career, but not his character (he could not do much about it) was that after defeating the still using Chris Eubanek in 1997 for the WBO title, there were few opponents who gained the imagination of the world, although Robin Reid, Richie Woodhall and Charles Bewer were former masters until he fell into Jeff Lacy nine years later. Despite this, he ruined the fearful American with such an electrifying applause, who began a glorious final, which took into account the peak of Mikkel Kessler, Hopkins (who won on Kelly Pavlik and Jean Pascal before him) and successfully ended Jones.

He united the titles in the era, when such a feat is almost impossible, and also moved to a slight weight and unjustified perceived linear line master Bernard Hopkins.

Not to mention that he went all his career without losing one professional fight. Anyone who can retire invincible deserves credit; Few who manage it after 10 years of work in a world -class are something special.

As a former lithe and lightweight title, Vinny Pazienza noticed before he took the unverified, but 36-fighting unbeaten Nelson Bolanos in 1986: “Even if he fought his mother 36 times, you would think that she would be lucky at least once.”

The ones they fled
Sven Ottke was the head of IBF for most of the rule and victory Calzaghe over the German, he would decorate the Joe record well. He wins in younger versions of Roy Jones and Bernard Hopkins, raising the WBO title from Steve Collins, responding to Carl Froch’s demands to Showdown and at the end of Chad Dawson, he would also strengthen his heritage. Super-Middle/Lightweight weight weight weight of Michael Nunn, James Toney and Glen Johnson would also lend a hand.

Interview with the exclusive Joe Calzaghe intelligence: Why did I never come back

“Life is the best leftist I’ve ever seen, although some say it’s Charlie White from Chicago.”

This is a quote from Ernest HemingwayFight with the writer’s Nobel Prize and at least he should say that. When I read this line for the first time a few years ago, I assumed that Charlie White is an invention, a kind of everyone who symbolized awards around the world. But it turns out that he wasn’t. White lived, breathed and spilled his blood into the penal rings of pre -war America. He was indeed a terrifying leftist and despite the settlements in Chicago, he was British by birth.

Born in a Jewish Russian immigrant family in Liverpool on March 25, 1891, Charlie’s real name is Charles Anchowitz. He came to America with his parents at the age of seven and settled in the Jewish ghetto in the west side of Chicago. At the age of 13, Charlie arranged tuberculosis. He was sent to the gym in Chicago Bill O’Connell and conducted a course of exercises to improve his health. Treatment seemed to work. Soon he was free from tuberculosis, and under the care of O’Connell he discovered a talent for boxing.

Charlie had his first professional fight in the middle of teenagers, adopting the name White in tribute to Tommy White, the highest weight from Chicago Feather in the 1890s. The string of knockouts won mainly by the left hook brought him the nickname “Left Hook Charlie”, and soon mixed in a world -class company.

In December 1909 he lost the eight round with the prevailing world champion in the weight of feathers, Abe Atell, who “was forced to expand to the border” according to Union Sacramento. The article noted that the decision of the judge for Attell “was unpopular”. They met again nine months later in the fight for “without decision”. It was another loved one, but Atell did enough to make a decision in the newspaper.

At that time, some US jurisdictions banned point sentences, and the boxer could officially win only through knockout or stop. This was to combat the plants, but instead of the official result, the winner of the competition for full distance was settled by Sportswriters in the newspapers the next day. Some world champions even insisted on fighting for a lack of decision-making to assist protect their titles-a great disappointment of their contenders.

In May 1914, 23-year-old White faced Willie Ritchie from San Francisco behind the world crown and dominated the fight. “I was generated and exceeded,” Ritchie admitted. White won the decision in the newspaper, but the fight went a distance, so Willie kept his title.

The next shot of Charlie at a slight distinction was against the successor of Ritchie, Freddie Welsh from Pontipridd. The couple fought four times in 1914–1916, and White won one decision in the newspaper and lost the other three fights. Despite his apparent fist advantage, the Welshman developed vigorous respect for Charlie’s left hook. “Keep your right hand all the time and go to him with your left. Never employ the right,” Brit Matt Wells warned in a letter before Matt’s first fight with Charlie in 1915. “I felt one of his left on my head in one of our Milwaukee battles and I thought the building had come.”

Benny Leonard, one of the best defensive boxers of all time, would recognize this useful advice when he got to know the wearing ring, but still unsafe 29-year-old White in July 1920. In the fifth 10-round lightweight title fight, White planted his legendary left hook on Leonard’s jaw and overturned him through Lines. But Leonard got back on the ring-non-citizens say with the assist of his brother-and turned the tables white with the ninth round of KO. It was the only knockout loss of Chicagoan’s career.

Charlie-Kwyóó was also challenging Jacek Britton for a world-class crown and won two, lost two and drew one of the two-time title in the twenty Johnny Dundee-he had unlucky so as not to win the title himself. It deserves to be remembered much more than Punch Hemingway.